philosophy

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life."

"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."

"Virtual Friends [10w] Internet camaraderie's bullshit because these 'friends' can't be relied upon."

"Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?"

"...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency."

"Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy."

"The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart."

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"The Wonder of Wandering [10w] When you wander without destination,the world becomes your teacher."

"Sublime natures are seldom clean!"

"Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown."

"Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure."

"I hope for happiness for you."

"It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair."

"In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably."

"A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist."